Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tendency to portray his protaganists as, well, creeps. Like Arthur Abdul Simpson, the hero of Dirty Story, who is first introduced in The Light of Day. There he is blackmailed by a jewel ring into smuggling guns, and in turn blackmailed by the Turkish police into infiltrating the mob (a decent film, Topkapi, was made from this; Peter Ustinov made an excellent creep). Anyway, Simpson is the son of a British army man stationed in Cairo and an Egyptian woman. They are long dead and Simpson, who bears some rather sick grudges from his experiences at English boarding schools...
...coach Billy Clearly danced from the Crimson bench to join the mob near the Harvard goal, the Wildcats could just stare and wonder what it takes to win a game in this March-mad tournament. UNH has now lost seven of eight ECAC quarterfinal contests...
Travis tries desperately to make some sort of contact with the world, but he is systematically rebuffed. The macadam mob--taxi-dispatchers, hookers, pornographic movie-house vendors--looks at him with sullen, suspicious eyes. The claustrophobic routinization of their lives, the daily bombardment of the senses, has forced them into the defensive position of "cool". They are wary, detached from their experience; some adopt swaggering, arrogant personae, others merely become dead to the world--all of them are irreversibly divorced from their emotions...
...Watson to George Wallace have attempted to do. Befitting high-level academics--Daniel Patrick Moynihan is among the contributors to "The American Commonwealth, 1976"--theirs is an elitist rightism. Like John Adams, the traditionalist of colonial days, they seem to have no greater fear than that of King Mob...
...Churning Mob. Patty was escorted up to No. 6 on the third floor-an unoccupied studio apartment that had been rented to the S.L.A. for $125 a month. One by one, the jurors walked into the closet that Patty said had been her jail for about four weeks. It was 19 in. wide and 60 in. long. Albert Johnson, Bailey's portly assistant, could not squeeze inside. Patty briefly entered the chamber. "She cried, she sobbed," Johnson reported. "I had to hold her up. I thought she was going to faint." White as death, Patty was hustled...